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HassleCat

(6,409 posts) Mon Jan 16, 2017, 07:46 PM Jan 2017

It would be nice to think about MLK today.

The pace of progress on race relations was pretty rapid years ago, but we seem to have slowed down in recent years. I sometimes hear people say that we have turned the tables, that black Americans now enjoy more rights and privileges than white people. I know a couple people who voted for Trump for this very reason, because they saw black gains as their losses. Zero sum thinking. They wonder why black Americans have their own holiday, and they don't. And so on.